Quotes
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The Blue Fairy: Now, remember, Pinocchio, be a good boy. And always let your conscience be your guide.
The Blue Fairy: A lie keeps growing and growing until it`s as plain as the nose on your face.
Jiminy Cricket: What does an actor want with a conscience anyway?
The Coachman: And what might your name be?
Alexander: Alexander.
The Coachman: So you can talk?
Alexander: Yes, sir. I wanna go home to my mama!
The Coachman: Take him back! He can still talk!
Alexander: Please, please, I don`t wanna be a donkey! Let me outta here!
The Coachman: [cracks his whip] Quiet! You boys have had your fun. Now pay for it!
Jiminy Cricket: Toodle-oo, Stromboli.
Pinocchio: [yelling] Goodbye, Mr Stromb...
Jiminy Cricket: Shhh! Quiet! Let`s get out of here before something else happens.
Lampwick: [picks up Jiminy] Hey, who`s the beetle?
Jiminy Cricket: Let go! Put me down!
Pinocchio: He`s my conscience. He tells me what`s right and wrong.
Lampwick: What? You mean to tell me you take orders from a grasshopper?
Jiminy Cricket: "Grasshopper"? Look here, you... you impudent young pup! It wouldn`t hurt you to take orders from your grasshop... er, your conscience, if you have one!
Jiminy Cricket: You buttered your bread. Now sleep in it!
The Coachman: Give a bad boy enough rope, and he`ll soon make a jackass of himself.
Foulfellow: [singing] Hi-diddle-dee-dee / An actor`s life for me / A high silk hat and a silver cane / A watch of gold with a diamond chain / Hi-diddle-dee-day / an actor`s life is gay / It`s great to be a celebrity / An actor`s life for me!
The Blue Fairy: Little puppet made of pine, awake. The gift of life is thine.
Geppetto: Who`s there?
Pinocchio: It`s me.
Geppetto: [relieved] Oh. It`s me.
The Blue Fairy: A boy who won`t be good, might just as well be made of wood.
Pinocchio: [has just reunited with Gepetto] Hey, Father! Father!
Geppetto: Don`t bother me now, Pinocchio! What? Pinocchio?
Pinocchio: Father, whatcha crying for?
Geppetto: Because... you`re dead, Pinocchio.
Pinocchio: No! No, I`m not.
Geppetto: Yes. Yes, you are. Now, lie down...
Pinocchio: But father, I`m alive. See?
[Looks at himself]
Pinocchio: And... and I`m... I`m real. I`m a real boy!
Geppetto: You`re alive! And... and you are a real boy!
Lampwick: Huh! To hear that beetle talk you`d think somethin` was gonna happen to us.
[Donkey ears pop out of Lampwick`s head; Pinocchio`s eyes widen]
Lampwick: Conscience! Aw, phooey!
[a tail pops out of the seat of Lampwick`s pants; Pinocchio puts down the cigar he has been smoking]
Lampwick: Wheres he get that stuff? "How do you ever expect to be a real boy?" What`s he think I look like?
[Now his head is that of a donkey]
Lampwick: A jackass?
Pinocchio: You sure do! Ha-ha, Hee-haw!
Lampwick: Hey, you laugh like a donkey. Ha-ha Hee-haw!
[Lampwick gasps]
Lampwick: Did that come outta me?
[Lampwick starts feeling his face and notices the changes]
Lampwick: Oh!
[He raises his arms a little higher and notices his ears]
Lampwick: Huh? What the...
[noticing his tail]
Lampwick: What`s going on?
[He looks in the mirror and sees that he is turning into a donkey]
Lampwick: Aaaahh! I`ve been double-crossed! Help! Help! Somebody, help! I`ve been framed! Help!
[Gets down on his knees and begs Pinocchio for help]
Lampwick: Please, you gotta help me. Be a pal! Call that beetle. Call anybody!
[Lampwick`s hands turn into hooves]
Lampwick: Mama! Maaaaaaaaaamaaaaaaaaaaa! Hee-haw! Hee-haw! Hee-haw! Hee-haw!
The Blue Fairy: Pinocchio, why didn`t you go to school?
Pinocchio: School? Well, I...
[Looks up at Jiminy]
Jiminy Cricket: Go ahead, tell her.
Pinocchio: I was going to school, `till I met somebody.
The Blue Fairy: Met somebody?
Pinocchio: Yeah, two big monsters, with big green eyes.
[Pinochio`s nose grows a little]
Pinocchio: Why, I...
The Blue Fairy: Monsters? Weren`t you afraid?
Pinocchio: No, Ma`am, but they tied me in a big sack.
[His nose grows a little more, sprouts leaves]
The Blue Fairy: You don`t say? And where was Sir Jiminy?
Pinocchio: Huh? Oh, Jiminy?
Jiminy Cricket: [Jumps in front of Pinocchio] Pst! Leave me out of this.
Pinocchio: They put him in a little sack.
[His nose grows even more, taking Jiminy along with it]
The Blue Fairy: No!
Pinocchio: Yeah!
[the nose sprouts flowers]
The Blue Fairy: How did you escape?
Pinocchio: I didn`t. They chopped me into fire wood!
[His nose grows again, this time sprouting a nest with baby birds inside]
Pinocchio: Oh, look! My nose! What`s happened?
The Blue Fairy: Perhaps you haven`t been telling the truth, Pinocchio.
Jiminy Cricket: Perhaps?
Pinocchio: Oh, but I have! Every single word!
[the branch on the nose whithers, and the birds fly away, whistling]
Pinocchio: I`d rather be smart than be an actor.
Lampwick: You smoke like my grandmother.
[trying to unlock the cage lock to Stromboli`s cage so Pinocchio can get out]
Jiminy Cricket: Needs a little oil.
["Needs a little oil" echoes through the lock]
Jiminy Cricket: That`s what I said.
[repeated line]
Jiminy Cricket: A fine conscience I turned out to be!
[Inside Monstro the whale, Geppetto and Pinocchio are discussing how to escape]
Geppetto: Get out? Oh, no, no, son. I have tried every way. Why, I even built a raft.
Pinocchio: [noticing the raft] A raft? That`s it! We`ll take the raft. And when the whale opens his mouth...
Geppetto: No, no, no, no. Now, listen, son. He only opens his mouth when he`s eating. Then everything comes in; nothing goes out.
Pinocchio: Oh.
Geppetto: Yes, it`s hopeless, Pinocchio. Come, we`ll make a nice fire and we cook some of the fish.
Pinocchio: A fire? That`s it!
Geppetto: Yes, and then we`ll all eat again.
Pinocchio: A great big fire; lots of smoke!
Geppetto: Smoke? Oh, yes, sure. Smoked fish will taste good.
Pinocchio: Quick, some wood!
[Pinocchio grabs some pieces of wood and a wooden chair and places the wood in Geppetto`s arms]
Geppetto: Pinocchio, not the chair!
Pinocchio: Hurry, Father, more wood!
[Pinocchio smashes the chair over a wooden barrel while Geppetto adds the wood pieces in his arms]
Geppetto: But what`ll we sit on?
Pinocchio: We won`t need it. We`re getting out!
[Pinocchio grabs a lit lantern and smashes it over the pile of wood, causing a fire to start. Pinocchio then adds a blanket to create smoke. Pinocchio promptly starts blowing and fanning on the smoke to force it up. The smoke curls upward towards the top of Monstro]
Geppetto: Getting out? But how?
Pinocchio: We`ll make him sneeze!
Geppetto: Make him sneeze? Oh, that will make him mad!
[Jiminy arrives at the billiard hall on Pleasure Island and is shocked to see Pinocchio there smoking and playing pool]
Jiminy Cricket: [shouting] Pinocchio! So, this is where I find you! How do you ever expect to be a real boy? Look at yourself. Smoking! Playing pool!
[Jiminy angrily kicks a billiard ball next to him, only to hurt his foot. He hops around, clutching his foot and yelling out in pain]
Jiminy Cricket: Oww! You`re comin` right home with me, this minute!
Jiminy Cricket: [to Pinocchio] Remember what I said about temptations?
[points to Honest John]
Jiminy Cricket: That`s him.
Pinocchio: Oh, no, Jiminy. That`s Mr. Honest John.
Jiminy Cricket: [shocked] Honest John?
[Having been ditched by Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket starts to leave Pleausre Island]
Jiminy Cricket: Lampwick, hmph! Lampwick! Burns me up after all I tried to do for him. Who`s his conscience, anyway? Me or that hoodlum Lampwick? Well, I`ve had enough of this. I`m takin` the next boat outta here.
Foulfellow: [seeing a poster for Stromboli`s puppet show] Well, well, well! Stromboli! So that old rascal`s back in town, eh?
[to Gideon]
Foulfellow: Remember the time I put strings on you and passed you off as a puppet?
[Foulfellow laughs]
Foulfellow: We nearly put one over on that old gypsy that time.
Stromboli: [shuts Pinocchio up in a cage] There! This will be your home, where I can find you always!
Pinocchio: No, no, no!
Stromboli: Yes, yes, yes! To me, you are a belonging. We will tour the world: Paris, London, Monte Carlo, Constantinopolee.
Pinocchio: No, no!
Stromboli: [bangs his fist on the table] YES! We start TONIGHT!
[stuffs money into a bag]
Stromboli: You will make lots of money,
[stuffs the bag into his cummerbund]
Stromboli: for me!
[picks up a hatchet]
Stromboli: And when you are growing too old, you will make good firewood!
[throws the hatchet into a stack of firewood which also contains a worn-out puppet]
Stromboli: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Pinocchio: Let me out of here! I`m gonna get out! You can`t keep me...
Stromboli: QUIET! Shut up! Before I knock you silly! Good night,
[blows a kiss]
Stromboli: my little wooden gold mine! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Geppetto: Now close your eyes and go to sleep.
Pinocchio: Why?
Geppetto: Everybody has to sleep. Figaro goes to sleep, and Cleo, and besides, tomorrow, you`ve got to go to school.
Pinocchio: Why?
Geppetto: Oh, to learn things, and get smart.
Pinocchio: Why?
Geppetto: [starts to fall asleep] Because.
Pinocchio: Oh.
The Blue Fairy: Prove yourself brave, truthful, and unselfish, and someday, you will be a real boy.
The Blue Fairy: Would you like to be Pinocchio`s conscience?
Jiminy Cricket: [Blushing] Well, uh, I... Uh-huh.
The Blue Fairy: Very well. What is your name?
Jiminy Cricket: [tipping his hat] Oh, Cricket`s the name. *Jiminy* Cricket!
The Blue Fairy: Kneal, Mr. Cricket.
Jiminy Cricket: Huh?
[Kneals]
Jiminy Cricket: No tricks now.
[the fairy taps Jiminy with her wand; his rags turn into fine clothes]
The Blue Fairy: I dub you Pinocchio`s conscience, lord high keeper of the knowledge of right and wrong, counselor in moments of high temptation, and guide along the straight and narrow path. Arise, Sir Jiminy Cricket.
Jiminy Cricket: [Admiring his new clothes] Well! Ho-ho-ho! My, my! Mmm! Say, that`s pretty swell! Gee, thanks. But, uh, don`t I get a badge or something?
The Blue Fairy: Well, we`ll see.
Jiminy Cricket: You mean maybe I will?
The Blue Fairy: I shouldn`t wonder.
Jiminy Cricket: Make it a gold one?
The Blue Fairy: Maybe.
[Pinocchio, having heard that Geppetto is alive after being swallowed by Monstro, makes the bold decision to save him. So he takes off]
Jiminy Cricket: Hey, where ya goin`?
Pinocchio: I`m going to find him!
Jiminy Cricket: [following after Pinocchio] But Pinocch, are you crazy? Don`t you realize he`s in a whale?
Pinocchio: I`ve *gotta* go to him!
Jiminy Cricket: [following after Pinocchio] Hey, Pinocch! Wait! Listen here, son!
[But Pinocchio doesn`t stop; he just keeps going straight to a high cliff overlooking the ocean, Jiminy following all the way]
Jiminy Cricket: But this Monstro, I`ve heard of him; he`s a whale of a whale!
[Pinocchio starts tying a rock to his donkey tail]
Jiminy Cricket: Why, he swallows whole ships alive!
[He then helps tie Pinocchio`s tail to the rock completely]
Jiminy Cricket: Tie it good and tight now. And besides, it`s dangerous! Why, I...
Pinocchio: Good-bye, Jiminy.
Jiminy Cricket: Good-bye? I may be live bait down there, but I`m with ya!
[first lines]
Jiminy Cricket: [after singing "When You Wish Upon a Star"] Pretty, huh? I`ll bet a lot of you folks don`t believe that, about a wish comin` true, do ya? Well, I didn`t, either. Of course, I`m just a cricket singing my way from hearth to hearth, but let me tell you what made me change my mind.
Foulfellow: [he and Gideon have "diagnosed" Pinocchio] My boy, you are *allergic*.
Pinocchio: Allergic?
Foulfellow: Yes, and there is only one cure: a vacation on Pleasure Island!
Pinocchio: Pleasure Island?
Foulfellow: Yes!
[Foulfellow and Gideon dance about]
Foulfellow: That happy land of carefree boys, where everyday`s a holiday!
Pinocchio: [leaving] But I can`t go. I...
Foulfellow: [he and Gideon stop him] Why, of course you can go. I`m giving you my ticket.
[he produces an ace of spades card in his hand and gives it to Pinocchio]
Foulfellow: Here.
Pinocchio: Thanks. But I...
Foulfellow: No, tut-tut-tut, I insist; your health comes first.
[he and Gideon grab Pinocchio and escort him away]
Foulfellow: Come, the coach departs at midnight!
[Foulfellow sings the "Pleasure Island" rendition of "Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee" as they escort Pinocchio away]
The Blue Fairy: You must learn to choose between right and wrong.
Pinocchio: Right and wrong? But how will I know?
Jiminy Cricket: [watching] How`ll he know!
The Blue Fairy: [to Pinocchio] Your conscience will tell you.
Pinocchio: What are conscience?
Jiminy Cricket: What are conscience! I`ll tell ya! A conscience is that still small voice that people won`t listen to. That`s just the trouble with the world today...
Pinocchio: Are you my conscience?
Jiminy Cricket: Who, me?
Geppetto: Now, I`ve got just the name for you: Pinocchio! Do you like it, Figaro?
[Figaro shakes his head]
Geppetto: No? You do, don`t you, Cleo?
[Cleo shakes her head]
Geppetto: Well, we`ll leave it to little wooden head. You like it?
[pulls on string to make Pinocchio`s head nod "yes"]
Geppetto: Ha-ha, that settles it! Pinocchio it is!
Jiminy Cricket: [seeing Pinocchio for the first time] Good piece of wood, too.
Geppetto: Oh, Pinocchio! How did you get down here?
Pinocchio: I fell down.
Geppetto: Oh, you did... Oh! You are talking!
Pinocchio: Uh-huh.
Geppetto: No! No no no!
Pinocchio: Yes, and I can move too.
Geppetto: No, no, you can`t! I`m dreaming in my sleep! Oh, wake me up! Wake me up!
[pours a pitcher of water over his head]
Geppetto: Now we see who`s dreaming. Go on, say something.
Pinocchio: Gee, you`re funny. Do it again!
Jiminy Cricket: All right then, here`s what we`ll tell `em. You can`t go to the theater, say "thank you just the same, you`re sorry, but you`ve got to go to school."
Pinocchio: Mmm-hmm.
Foulfellow: Pinocchio! Oh, Pinocchio! Woo-hoo!
Jiminy Cricket: Here they come, Pinoke. Now, you tell `em.
Foulfellow: Woo hoo! Oh, little boy! Ah, there you are. Where were we? Ah, yes. On to the theater!
Pinocchio: Good bye, Jiminy! Good bye!
Jiminy Cricket: Good bye? Huh? Good bye?
[Sees Pinocchio going off with Foulfellow and Gideon]
Jiminy Cricket: Hey, Pinoke! You can`t go!... There he goes. What`ll I do? I`ll run and tell his father. No, that`d be snitching. I`ll go after him myself.
Foulfellow: [Picks up Pinocchio`s schoolbook and apple, which he eats] Well, well. Quite the scholar, I see. Look, Giddy. A man of letters. Here`s your book
[hands book to Pinocchio]
Pinocchio: I`m going to school.
Foulfellow: School. Ah, yes. Then perhaps you haven`t heard of the easy road to success.
Pinocchio: Uh-uh.
Foulfellow: No? I`m speaking, my boy, of the theater! Here`s your apple.
[Hands Pinocchio the apple, eaten down to the core]
Foulfellow: Bright lights, music, applause! Fame!
[Wiggles eyebrows]
Pinocchio: Fame?
[Wiggles eyebrows too]
Foulfellow: Yes! And with that personality, that profile, that physique... why, he`s a natural-born actor, eh, Giddy?
Pinocchio: But I`m going...
Foulfellow: ...straight to the top! Why, I can see your name in lights, lights six feet high! Uh... what is your name?
Pinocchio: Pinocchio.
Foulfellow: Pinocchio! P-I-N... er, U-O... Uh, er...
[chuckles]
Foulfellow: We`re wasting precious time. Come. On to the theater!
Pinocchio: I can move.
[Covers his mouth in astonishment]
Pinocchio: I can talk!
[gets up]
Pinocchio: I can walk!
[Stumbles and falls]
The Blue Fairy: Yes, Pinocchio, I`ve given you life.
Pinocchio: Why?
The Blue Fairy: Because tonight, Gepetto wished for a real boy.
Pinocchio: Am I a real boy?
The Blue Fairy: No, Pinocchio. To make Gepetto`s wish come true will be entirely up to you.
Pinocchio: Up to me?
The Blue Fairy: Prove yourself brave, truthful and unselfish, and someday you will be a real boy.
Pinocchio: A real boy!
Jiminy Cricket: That won`t be easy.
The Coachman: How would you blokes like to make some real money?
[Lays a large bag of money on the table]
Foulfellow: Well! And who do we have to, eh...
[Makes throat-slashing motion]
The Coachman: No, no. Nothing like that. You see...
[Looks around to see if anyone is listening; Foulfellow does the same]
The Coachman: I`m collecting stupid little boys.
Foulfellow: Stupid little boys?
The Coachman: You know, the disobedient ones who play hooky from school.
Foulfellow: Ohh!
The Coachman: And you see...
[Whispers in Foulfellow`s ear; Gideon puts his ear to Foulfellow`s other ear so he can listen as well]
The Coachman: And I takes `em to Pleasure Island.
Foulfellow: [nods in agreement] Ah, Pleasure Island.
[suddenly shocked]
Foulfellow: Pleasure Island? But the law! Suppose they...
The Coachman: No, no. There is no risk. They never come back... as BOYS!
[leans in close to camera and smiles wickedly]
Jiminy Cricket: Now, you see, the world is full of temptations.
Pinocchio: Temptations?
Jiminy Cricket: Yep, temptations. They`re the wrong things that seem right at the time... but... uh... even though the right things may seem wrong sometimes, or sometimes the wrong things,
[chuckles]
Jiminy Cricket: may be right at the wrong time, or visa versa.
Jiminy Cricket: [clears throat] Understand?
Pinocchio: [shakes his head] Uh-uh. But I`m gonna do right.
Jiminy Cricket: Atta boy, Pinoke! And I`m gonna help ya.
Trivia
Amongst the nipping and tucking, there were two longer scenes taken out. One included an extended scene of Pleasure Island. The other is of Geppetto telling Pinocchio of his grandfather, a pine tree.
Mel Blanc, well known for performing the voices of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and many other cartoon characters, was hired to perform the voice of Gideon the Cat. However, it was eventually decided that Gideon should be mute, and all of Blanc`s recorded dialogue was cut, save one solitary hiccup.
When Pinocchio is changed into a real boy, his hands are transformed from three-fingered and white-gloved "Mickey Mouse" hands into four-fingered (plus thumb) human hands sans gloves. Wood-carver/dad Geppetto sports a full compliment of gnarly digits throughout this 1940 classic.
After a year of meticulous restoration, which included cleaning and removing scratches from the original negatives frame by frame, eliminating age-old distortions on the sound track, and revitalizing the color, the now-pristine film was reissued in 1992.
Lampwick, the red-headed boy whom Pinocchio befriends at Pleasure Island is a caricature of Disney animator Fred Moore.
The song from Pinocchio, "When You Wish Upon A Star" was ranked #7 in the 2004 American Film Institute`s List of the "Top Movie Songs of All Time", the highest ranking song on the list among Disney animated films.
[June 2008] Ranked #2 on the American Film Institute`s list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Animation".
Lux Radio Theatre on the CBS network, with Cecil B. DeMille as the Presenter, broadcast a condensed versions of "Pinocchio" on Christmas Day, 1939. The program featured the performers who did the voices in the film.
On its first release, this movie was billed on posters as being filmed in "Multiplane Technicolor".
Carlo Collodi was really Carlo Lorenzini, a journalist and rabble-rouser who settled down to write children`s stories. He took his pen name from the town of his mother`s birth, Collodi. When he originally published "Pinocchio" in the form of a magazine serial, Lorenzini`s intention was to kill Pinocchio by having him hang himself. At the suggestion of his editor, Lorenzini added chapters sixteen to thirty-two, giving the story a happy ending and creating the character of the Blue Fairy.
The Blue Fairy in Pinocchio (as well as the prince in Snow White) was created by using the rotoscope technique.
Although a flop initially, the 1945 re-release bought it into profit. Disney, more than any other studio, would effectively market re-releases to take advantage of its films reaching each new audience generation. This marketing plan would allow once costly flops (such as Fantasia (1940)) to eventually post handsome profits. And since virtually all its pre-1959 animated library are considered classics, the studio is able to reap huge profits with the advent of new media formats and limited-time purchase availability within a particular format.
In 1940, Victor Young conducted a four-record 78-RPM Decca album of the songs from "Pinocchio". The album featured three songs eventually deleted from the film before its release: "Jiminy Cricket"; "Turn on the Old Music Box" and "Three Cheers for Anything". Cliff Edwards, who did the voice of Jiminy Cricket in the film, was the only actor from the movie who appeared on the album. Also featured were Julietta Novis (who sang the "Ave Maria" in Disney`s Fantasia (1940)), The King`s Men and The Ken Darby Singers. It is also claimed that around this time, RCA Victor released an album that was supposedly the actual film soundtrack of "Pinocchio", but whether or not it really was the soundtrack has never been confirmed.
This was the first Disney feature available on DVD.
The August 1993 issue of Playboy cited 43 instances of violence and other unfavorable behavior in this film, including 23 instances of battery, nine acts of property damage, three slang uses of the term "jackass", three acts of violence involving animals, two shots of male nudity, and one instance of implied death.
The pool hall at Pleasure Island is in the shape of a giant eight ball with a tall cue-shaped structure standing nearby. This is a neat takeoff on the Trylon and the Perisphere at the 1939 New York World`s Fair.
With the exception of Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) (where he again only provided the voices of the Warner Bros. cartoon characters), this was the only time Mel Blanc contributed a voice for a Disney film.
Due to the war, the movie was not released in either Germany or Japan before the 1950s. In 1951, when the movie was released in Germany, it was dubbed with rather unknown actors. Only Horst Buchholz, as the voice of Lampwick, was to become famous in later years. In 1971, the movie was re-dubbed along with other Disney classics such as Dumbo (1941) and Bambi (1942). The original dub is now unknown in Germany.
Amongst the debris in the destruction house at Pleasure Island, a print of Leonardo Da Vinci`s "The Mona Lisa" can be seen.
The first animated film to win an Academy Award in a competitive category. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) won an honorary Oscar two years earlier.
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